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SUPERIOR TASTE AND FRESHNESS |
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Local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances from other states or countries, because it often reaches you with 24 hours of harvest. Local farmers can offer produce varieties bred for taste and freshness rather than for shipping and long shelf life.
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STRONGER LOCAL ECONOMIES AND COMMUNITIES |
| Buying local food keeps your dollars circulating in your community and increases local food security. Getting to know the farmers who grow your food builds relationships based on understanding and trust, the foundation of strong communities. With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of your money spent on food goes directly to local farmers. |
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HEALTHY FAMILIES |
Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown or raised enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations. Buy food from local farmers you trust.
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HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT |
Local food doesn’t have to travel far, (conventionally produced food travels an average 1500 miles), thus reducing fossil fuel dependence and CO2 emissions produced from production, packaging, transport and storage. Buying locally also protects open space and farmland, preserving our beautiful, local landscape.
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IT’S EASY! |
Buy Fresh, Buy Local (BFBL) is part of a nationwide effort coordinated by the Food Routes Network to help folks like you find the healthiest and freshest food in your very own community! Within Pennsylvania, check out
buylocalpa.org
to source your local food and learn more about PA’s BFBL organizational partners. If you reside outside of PA or want to learn how to get more involved,
visit
foodroutes.org, and their
library
for references and more information. Support your local
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The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is a nonprofit organization working to improve the economic prosperity, environmental soundness and social propriety of Pennsylvania food and agricultural systems. PASA creates networks and markets to strengthen the ties between concerned consumers and family farmers, and serves as the Regional Chapter Affiliate for the eight Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL) Chapters located around Pennsylvania, providing funding opportunities, staff support, and networking outlets. The Southeastern PA BFBL chapter provides consumers education and information about how to access local food. For more information about PASA and its programs go to pasafarming.org.
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HOME | PARTICIPATING ARTISTS | BUY LOCAL | DTE 2006 Archive
(C) 2007 Down to Earth Exhibit & Special Events
Celebrating connections between functional art, local food, & community.
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